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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

Contrary to popular belief, NTP, Inc. doesn't appear to be just a band of lawyers intent on patent squatting.

While it's true that the late Thomas Campana was the "inventor" named on the NTP patents, the company's only purpose was pantent squatting. From the article:

For a decade, Mr. Stout and his long-time client, Chicago inventor Thomas Campana Jr., had been patiently sitting on a batch of patents for a system to send text messages from computers to wireless devices.

Also, since so far each of the NTP patents reviewed by the patent office have failed the preliminary review (subject to further review of course), even the claims are dubious.

The point that I have been stressing: our current patent system is completely broken is unchanged by this article.

There's still no question that NTP does not, and will not, make anything of value and that their whole purpose in existing is to wait for someone to invent something independently of NTP's efforts in order to profit from the work of others.